Some books I've enjoyed, listed in reverse-chronological order.
Must-reads are bolded and partially read books are italicized.
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- Chip War, Chris Miller
- Exhalation, Ted Chiang
- Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
- High Output Management, Andy Grove
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
- The Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu
- Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
- Einstein and The Quantum Revolutions, Alain Aspect
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Brave New Words, Sal Khan
- Play Bigger, Al Ramadan et al.
- Generations, Jean M. Twenge
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
- Super Pumped, Mike Isaac
- Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
- Educated, Tara Westover
- Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
- Principles, Ray Dalio
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- The Years, Annie Ernaux
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
- Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- Dying to Win, Robert Pape
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
- Superforecasting, Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Odyssey, Homer